World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The War at Sea is essential reading for anyone interested in World War 2. It's breadth and deep of coverage of the historical detail is without equal. Only Morisons 'US Naval Operations in WWII' compares but it is totally focused on the USN and does not start till 1941. This is not a combat narrative,...
Those Angry Days
Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II—a bitter, sometimes violent clash...
by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is “an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule” (The Washington Post).
In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating...
D-Days in the Pacific With the US Coastguard
The Story of Lucky Thirteen
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Winner of the 2008 Foundation for Coast Guard History Book Award
The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover,...
by Peter H Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the humorous but serious World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a misplaced Chicago radio producer who battled the system in order to serve his country, and yet scooped the big news a war-weary world was waiting to hear.. Facing a...
by Patrick Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Dietrich BonhoefferThe Inspirational Life Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Peace Activist, Preacher, and World War II HeroBy Patrick BunkerMost everyone knows something about the horrific events of World War II. In particular, Nazi Germany's role in the war was one of magnified...
Bones of My Grandfather
Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“War, reclamation, and what Tim O'Brien called "the Lives of the Dead" are eternal literary themes for men. Clay Bonnyman Evans has honored that lineage with this masterful melding of military history and personal quest.”—Ron Powers, co-author of New York Times #1 bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers...
Human Smoke
The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave...
Beachhead Assault
The Combat History of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The amphibious operations of the now-disbanded “Beach Commandos.” “Every page of Beachhead Assault has a tale of almost suicidal courage” (Tony Parsons).
The Royal Naval Commandos had one of the most dangerous and the most important tasks of any in World War II—they were first on...
The Ultimate Battle
Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" narrative style that distinguished his Brotherhood of Heroes (on the Battle of Peleliu), Bill Sloan presents a gripping and uniquely personal saga of heroism...
The German War
A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence...
Letters from the Greatest Generation
Writing Home in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II.
Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas.
Here,...
The Second World War
Volume III The Japanese War 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This comprehensive series, edited by one of the worlds leading military historians, offers a focused overview of this complex and volatile era, taking...
In the Highest Degree Tragic
The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands...